Hidden entrances, timing around congressional recess, the one procedure they're seeing a *lot* more of: DC plastic surgeons tell all to Joanna Weiss politico.com/news/magazine/…

Your Saturday POLITICO Playbook: politico.com/newsletters/pl…

Today's TFR is from Corbin Hiar: The most Canadian part of Minnesota is kind of liking Trump's attacks on their northern neighbor: politico.com/news/magazine/…

A very smart step-back about the history and structural factors that made Cuomo's surprise comeback not so surprising--

Bernie Sanders to Holly Otterbein on why Mamdami won: politico.com/news/magazine/…

10 years after marriage equality, Jim Obergefell is still struggling to move on from the grief of losing his husband — and America is still struggling to move on from anti-LGBT politics. I wrote about his ongoing fight for LGBT rights in POLITICO Magazine: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Take some time to read Dylon Jones's masterful profile of Jim Obergefell, the man whose name cemented marriage quality 10 years ago today at the Supreme Court politico.com/news/magazine/…

.Michael Linhorst on Drew Ensign, the lawyer representing the Trump admin in its most controversial immigration cases -- and his acquaintances' shock at how he ended up here: politico.com/news/magazine/…

“Mike Lee is far-right. The church is not far-right.” A must-read by Samuel Benson: politico.com/news/magazine/…

"Whatever else might be said of him, he has solved the problem of public speaking, in roughly the same way 'Woolly Bully' solved the problem of song lyrics": New, very fun read from Dan Brooks politico.com/news/magazine/…

"Watching Donald Trump try and fail to move the news cycle past Jeffrey Epstein this week was like watching an octopus spray ink and get eaten anyway: a wonder of evolution failing with the strategy that always worked for him."

I wrote about "heritage America," a concept that captures so many of the intellectual currents swirling around MAGA right now:

If you want to go deeper than a CNN segment on the pastor the secretary of Defense is praising, read Ian Ward' excellent profile of Doug Wilson from earlier this year politico.com/news/magazine/…

This week, the Supreme Court was formally asked to reconsider marriage equality. Over the summer, I profiled Jim Obergefell 10 years after his case. He told me today's justices would have ruled against him — and that they could overturn it now. politico.com/news/magazine/…

.Dan Brooks with an idea for how Democrats can save themselves. It involves 'Animal House' and 'Caddyshack.' politico.com/news/magazine/…

Really loved this great idea from Will Bredderman, the story that came out of it and the beautiful photos from Kelly Burgess

"And it showed that while Democrats are clearly listening to a lot of people online urging them to fight, a lot of people online may not be listening to them." Smart, fun read by Adam Wren: politico.com/news/magazine/…

I spoke with Mieke Eoyang about the challenges facing the Pentagon as it thinks about how to use AI: politico.com/news/magazine/…

A once-outlandish idea for reversing global warming takes a major step toward reality. w/ Corbin Hiar politico.eu/article/global…

"When I asked Zhou whether they’re building something that he felt could supplant something like watching CNN on election nights, his answer was simple: yes." Calder McHugh on the rise of political betting -- and how big it can get: politico.com/news/magazine/…